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IL: Report cards mistakenly delivered to emergency contacts

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Dissent

Melissa Jenco reports: Naperville Unit District 203 may not get very high marks in the subject of report card distribution this semester. The district recently learned copies of some high school students’ report cards were accidentally sent to the person listed as their emergency contact. Chief Information Officer Roger Brunelle said a vendor made an…

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CORRECTED and DELETED: NC: Documents Containing Personal Info Found In Dumpster

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Dissent

CORRECTION: The  incident reported in this entry was from 2009. Don’t know how it showed up as news in my newsreader, but my apologies for reporting it again as a new incident and am deleting it.

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IN: IU Information Security responds to hacking of President’s Challenge website

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Dissent

Kirsten Clark reports: Last semester the President’s Challenge website tracked IU [Indiana University] employees’ nutrition and exercise progress throughout their participation in the Healthy IU fitness competition. On Jan. 19, those same IU employees received an email from President’s Challenge officials delivering some alarming news. “We are writing to inform you about a security issue…

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CA: Sequoia Hospital vendor posted hospital employees’ personal information online

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Dissent

Aaron Kinney reports: A contractor working for Sequoia Hospital inadvertently posted the personal information of 391 current and former hospital employees on a public website, where it stayed for four years, the hospital said Thursday. An employee for Towers Watson, an international professional services firm, posted the information in October 2007, hospital CEO Glenna Vaskelis…

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FL: Customer credit cards compromised at restaurant

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Dissent

Stephanie Kolp reports: At least eight people say they’re the victim of credit card fraud. And the one thing they all have in common is that they all ate at the same restaurant in December. Anthony Valerio was one of those victims. “I realized there was a $77 charge to my account and I didn’t…

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NY ID theft scam has victims in 30 states

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Dissent

AP reports: Two New York women are facing grand larceny and other charges after a prosecutor said they posted phony Craigslist ads for nonexistent jobs and apartments and then used respondents’ personal information to obtain state income tax refunds, bank loans and credit cards in the victims’ names. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said…

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